Bell-krater (mixing bowl) with a satyr

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Bell-krater (mixing bowl) with a satyr

Artist: Attributed to the Painter of the Long Overfalls

Culture: South Italian

Date: ca. 375-360 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta (red-figure technique)

Dimensions:

height: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm)

diameter of mouth: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)

diameter of foot: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection

Object number: 86.138.91

Provenance: by purchase, Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986

Published References H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 208, no. 102

Label Text

Two of the mythical companions of Dionysos hurry across this small krater toward some festive occasion. On this side, a satyr, recognizable by his horse’s tail and ears, carries a phiale (a dish for pouring libations) and a wreath. The woman on the other side holds a tambourine and is probably a maenad, one of Dionysos’s wild female followers. This vase was most likely made in Apulia, the region encompassing the heel of the Italian peninsula.

(Jessica Powers, 2018)

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Bell-krater (mixing bowl) with a satyr

Bell-krater (mixing bowl) with a satyr